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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Commit to Sit

OK the Commit to sit isn't going well at all. We went away for the weekend and I managed to meditate a couple of times but the boys needed me to be with them, I wanted to enjoy the weekend with friends I see only a couple times a year, and just didn't have time for it. I guess to me that means that meditation is not a daily priority for me. Will have to think on it some more.

I don't feel like my life is missing something. I meditate on and off. We have a family circle which includes meditation twice a month, and I live in joy every day. Maybe that is enough. Maybe I need to modify the 28 day commit to sit a bit. Not sure. I know the concept is to see how life changing, daily meditation can be. So I am thinking I will start over today. Isn't that the great part, each day you can choose something different, start again. But I am thinking that working on one meditation a day may be all I can handle right now.

So today I begin again, doing one-20 minute meditation a day, when it best fits in with my day, no set time.

2 comments:

Have you read "Wherever You Go, There You Are", by Jon Kabat-Zinn? He makes the point in there that even taking a moment to - be in the moment, lol - is valuable. I guess the point of commit to sit is creating that time to sit every day - and it *does* make a difference! - but dang. Sit for ten, or five. Or does it have to be *perfect*? lol

I sooo relate to this. I am in a community of people who are encouraged to sit every day, on our own. I have a beautiful spot that I set up for it and never use. I feel great when i do it, but... I re-commit as well. ; )

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us.It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."